OpenJDK governing board, constitution

[Volker Simonis]

What I find most astonishing on this thread is that apparently neither
the Governance Board members nor a Sun representative have considered
it important enough to comment or respond. Strange...

On 1/16/09, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> Neal Gafter wrote:
>
>  >> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 19:15 -0800, Neal Gafter wrote:
>
>  >>> The OpenJDK governing board, having had its life extended by a
>  >>> year, is now scheduled to dissolve in four months, with two of its
>  >>> non-Sun positions remaining unfilled.  The last published meeting
>  >>> minutes were from April 2008, at which it was agreed that the GB
>  >>> would strive for a draft Constitution by the end of 2008.
>
>  >>> Who are the seven members of the governing board?  Can we please
>  >>> see the minutes of meetings after April, and get a status report
>  >>> on the Constitution?
>
>
> > The reason I ask is that I'm worried that openJDK may turn into the
>  > defacto mechanism for features getting into the platform.  The JCP
>  > used to play that role, but there has been little activity in
>  > forming a JSR for Java SE 7 in the past few years.  I've noticed
>  > that openjdk7 is more and more being called Java 7, JDK7, etc, even
>  > though it doesn't implement a platform specification approved by the
>  > JCP.  If openjdk is to become the mechanism by which features are
>  > added to the platform,
>
>
> I don't see how that can happen.  For Java SE 7 to be released there
>  must be a platform specification, and there must be a TCK.  openjdk7
>  is a bunch of packages slated for Java SE 7 that may or may not get to
>  be in the platform.
>
>
>  > it would be better for the governance model to acknowledge and support that.
>
>
> It would, yes, but it would be a huge change.
>
>  In the past there have undoubtedly been developments very much like
>  the openjdk7 tree, where platform integration has proceeded prior to
>  the formal platform specification.  This is essential: you need to
>  make sure that a design works in a reasonable way before its
>  specification is finalized.  The only difference now is that the
>  openjdk7 tree is open.
>
>
>  Andrew.
>